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Category Archives: Christianity
Reflection on ‘Suffering’ for Holy Week: Monday 25th March 2024
A universe without suffering means God controlling us like robots. We are rightly horrified by earthly fathers who control their children like that. Continue reading
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Tagged heaven, holy week, reflections, resurrection, suffering
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Destined for Salvation: Sermon Preached on 19th November 2023 (Second Sunday before Advent)
Don’t be too casual about your spiritual wellbeing. The moment you meet Christ as judge could come at any time. Continue reading
Render unto Caesar: Sermon Preached on 22nd October 2023 (20th Sunday after Trinity)
It’s difficult to use this story as a simple proof-text for any particular approach to relations between Church and State. Christians need to read it in their own time and place, and think and pray about its implications Continue reading
Answers in Genesis?
I used to say that if the answers were in Genesis, it must have been a very silly question: but the Fall is central to the narrative logic of Christianity. Continue reading
Reflection on ‘Betrayal’ for Holy Week; Wednesday 5th April 2023
Betrayal can leave us feeling understandably bitter: but bitterness is corrosive emotionally and spiritually Continue reading
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Reflection on ‘Fame’ for Holy Week: Tuesday 4th April 2023
No matter how famous we are, only God truly knows us and wants to live with us forever. Continue reading
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Tagged fame, retreats, social media, working from home
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Reflection on ‘Judgement’ for Holy Week; Monday 3 April 2023
Given at St Mary’s, Potterne Matthew 25. 31-40 Do we want to live in a universe where Jimmy Saville got away with it? I found myself asking this as I prepared the readings for tonight’s service. Many of us will … Continue reading
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Tagged holy week, judgement, justice, reflections
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Waiting Patiently: Sermon Preached on 11th December 2022 (The Third Sunday of Advent)
In our impatient culture, we need to learn from John the Baptist how to wait for God’s time to move Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, sermon
Tagged christian evidence, church decline, ecclesiastical winter, john the baptist, sermon
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The Power of Names
God knows each of us by name, even if the world deems us worthless or worthy of destruction Continue reading
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Tagged bible, God, holocaust, jerusalem, names
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Jesus is Coming Back: Sermon Preached at Holy Cross, Seend, Sunday 27th November 2022 (The First Sunday of Advent)
Talk of the Second Coming makes us nervous, but without judgement there’s no justice Continue reading
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Tagged christian, christianity, eschatology, last judgement, second coming
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